2 hit men sentenced in Juarez to life in prison for killing investigator

A Chihuahua court sentenced two convicted sicarios, or hit men, in Juárez to life in prison for killing a state police investigator, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Alberto Sandoval Herrera, 29, and Antonio Genaro Rodriguez, 21, were convicted of homicide in the death of state police investigator Erika Elizabeth Silva Rivera, 31, who was fatally shot in a street ambush.

Both men were also convicted in the attempted homicide of five investigators in a shootout between police and the gunmen during a manhunt for the killers.

The men were armed with two AK-47 rifles and one handgun in the shootings on Dec. 6, 2010.

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